diff --git a/mint/install-packages.list b/mint/install-packages.list
index 600e36faf..6af4ef66d 100644
--- a/mint/install-packages.list
+++ b/mint/install-packages.list
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ dirmngr
 apt-transport-https
 dotnet-sdk-2.1
 ca-certificates-mono
-nuget
 libunwind8
 ruby
 ruby-dev
diff --git a/mint/preinstall.sh b/mint/preinstall.sh
index 3552a5688..c73df6d8f 100755
--- a/mint/preinstall.sh
+++ b/mint/preinstall.sh
@@ -48,8 +48,6 @@ fi
 
 xargs --arg-file="${MINT_ROOT_DIR}/install-packages.list" apt --quiet --yes install
 
-nuget update -self
-
 # set python 3.6 as default
 update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3.6 1
 
diff --git a/mint/remove-packages.list b/mint/remove-packages.list
index 0206fbc6d..182f289d0 100644
--- a/mint/remove-packages.list
+++ b/mint/remove-packages.list
@@ -6,4 +6,3 @@ ruby-bundler
 openjdk-8-jdk
 ant
 dotnet
-nuget